Joe Tidy
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77 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 8 Jul
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Lots of Romanian experts offered their time for free and they got through it.
And these health care attacks are becoming a real problem now.
Only months after the attack here, there was an attack that affected hospitals in London and someone did die.
And that was a direct result of the cyber attack from those hackers.
It was one of the contributing factors.
So it just goes to show how high the stakes are.
Der Ruhm des Zambezi-Rivers ist schrecklich. Aber es gibt auch noch einen Ruhm auf den Bergen hier in Nordwest-Zambien. Das unmissvolle Wurren einer Bitcoin-Mine. 24 Stunden am Tag, dieser Container voller kraftvollen Computern, krümmt durch komplexe mathematische Probleme, um Bitcoins als Teil des globalen Volunteer-Mining-Netzwerks zu verdienen.
Das ist Philip Walton, der amerikanische Kenia-Ko-Founder von Gridless, der Firma, die die Mine betreibt, die 120 Maschinen besitzt. Es ist ein seltsamer Ort für eine High-Tech-Krypto-Operation, aber es macht Sinn, weil die Elektrizität hier so günstig ist, dass sie direkt vom Hydro-Elektrik-Power-Plant kommt. Zengamina Hydro hat 17 Jahre lang Energie für die lokale Gemeinschaft verbraucht.
Der CEO des Sites, Daniel Ray, und seine Missionärfamilie waren involviert in der Konstruktion. 3 Millionen Pound wurde erholt, meistens von britischen Kirchen. Aber die Bitcoin-Mine hat seit 2023 eine große Erhöhung, weil sie die Exzess-Elektrizität verwendet.
Die Mission, Elektrizität in isolierte Gemeinschaften zu bekommen, ist eine monumentale Aufgabe in Afrika. Ein 2022-Zugang von der Internationalen Energieagentur zeigt, dass 600 Millionen Menschen auf dem Kontinent ohne Kraft sind. But because of Bitcoin's reputation, some companies and authorities remain uncomfortable with including it in electrification projects.
Globally, the industry is estimated to use as much energy as a small country like Poland. The environmental impact has long been a concern too. But according to analysts, there are signs that could be improving, with more of the mining giants moving to sustainable energy mixes. But setups like Zengamina have none of these problems.
Yes, they're a tiny part of the overall mining picture, but they're also a rare example of a controversial industry creating much more than just digital coins.
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Are we live? This is Ben Zhao, CEO and founder of the Bybit cryptocurrency exchange. He's about to make an announcement that every CEO dreads.
In fact, it's probably the biggest single theft in any industry ever. $1.5 billion gone in seconds. And even in the early hours after the hack, fingers began immediately pointing in one direction. North Korea. The impoverished country has one of the most advanced cyber teams in the world and is blamed for a growing list of massive, lucrative cyber attacks.
Cyber security experts like Dr Dorit Dor from Checkpoint have been tracking them for years.
Dr Beverly McCann from Darktrace says North Korea has made billions from hacks.
But the Bybit heist dwarfs all previous financial hacks. So how was it pulled off? Like all crypto exchanges, Bybit has a float of crypto coins ready to be sold and swapped in so-called hot wallets. When the hot wallets are running low, more crypto coins are taken out of huge reserve pots called cold wallets that are kept super secure and offline, therefore safe from hackers.
But the cybercriminals targeted a company called SafeWallet that Bybit uses to transfer coins from its reserve cold wallets to its hot wallets. Everything looked normal for Bybit as they set up the mega-transfer of Ethereum coins to the usual place, but the hackers had secretly changed the address that the coins were being sent to.
By the time they realised the coins had been sent to the criminals, it was too late. Bybit insisted that no customers would lose money. They've now replenished their reserves. But the company is, in its words, waging war on the hackers. They're offering bounties to anyone who can help track the stolen money as the hackers try and cash it out through crypto exchanges.
So far, 20 volunteers have been awarded a share of $4 million in rewards, but they're up against a skilled adversary.
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